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...history, Asians representing half the world's people came together under Asiatic sponsorship. The 200 delegates, from 30-odd countries and colonial territories, made an impressive spectacle. There were tiny, sloe-eyed Indonesian women in batiked lungis and husky Nepalese soldiers in rich blue brocade, bejeweled princesses, fez-topped Arabs, and lamas from Tibet in long crimson kimonos, their hair done in braids and their ears weighted with blue stone ornaments...
...Krug to tell you what he said to John L. Lewis. . . . The international set buzzing over what a headwaiter told the Duke of Windsor. . . . Stalin isn't sick. . . . Insiders say he has been dead 44 years. . . . King Farouk of Egypt wears a fez. . . . Betty Grable quitting the flicks to go into politics. . . . Bilbo quitting politics to go into the movies. . . . He'll play the title role in a revival of The Klansman. . . . Winston Churchill likes cigars. . . . Get Gandhi to tell you what he said to Nehru. . . . What Hollywood biggie dropped $40,000 in a floating crap game last...
Last week the President also: ¶Awarded the D.S.M. to Harry Hopkins. ¶Went to his first ball game as President. ¶ Received a new fez, signifying that he is a Past Potentate of Ararat Shrine, Kansas City; and a three-sided desk gadget which has YES on one side, NO on the second, and SCRAM on the third...
...hand for the occasion were Prague's Mayor Vaclav Macek and a "Monsieur Mong" representing the mayor of Chungking. But France's most important guest was Sidi Lamine, Bey of Tunis. He arrived wearing fez, black tunic and red gold-striped trousers. Across his chest shimmered the red sash of the Legion of Honor...
Disastrous Mumps. Campus fashions were conservative in 1909, and Hamilton sophomores raged at Freshman Woollcott's "excessively wrinkled and bagged trousers, a misshapen corduroy coat, grimy sneakers . . . red fez with gilt tassel." He became the best-hated man on the campus. He wrote plays with such titles as Mabel, the Beautiful Shopgirl, and played the feminine leads himself. Sex-obsessed, he sat up nights reading Krafft-Ebing and Havelock Ellis, poring over accounts of the trial of Oscar Wilde. He fought every boy in sight, bought a .45-caliber revolver and talked sullenly of suicide. "It may well...